Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas says judges overruling President Donald Trump’s agenda amounts to “judicial tyranny.”
Now, Gill is calling on Congress to end the judicial overreach via impeachment.
“One of the biggest problems in the country right now is judicial tyranny,” Gill told The Daily Signal’s Tony Kinnett on The Tony Kinnett Cast. “It’s judges who are taking off their robes and acting as if they’re political operatives… active members of the Democrat party who are there to the Democrats’ bidding.”
Gill criticized James “Jeb” Boasberg in particular, the President Barack Obama-appointed chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
“There are a few different things that we can do to solve that. One of them, which I think is a just and proper remedy, for instance, in this case of Judge Boasberg for several different things that he’s been involved in, is impeachment,” Gill said.
Impeachment requires a simple majority in the House of Representatives.
A trial would then take place in the Senate, where a two-thirds majority would be required.
In particular, Gill criticized Boasberg for a March ruling, in which he ruled against Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act to send Venezuelan illegal immigrants on a deportation flight to El Salvador.
Boasberg ordered that the flights be turned around.
“I filed articles of impeachment against Judge Boasberg earlier this year back in March whenever he demanded that the president turn a plane full of Tren de Aragua terrorists around mid-air and deposit the terrorists—illegal aliens—back into American communities,” Gill said. “I thought that was clearly an obvious abuse of power, a politicization of his court, a weaponization of his court against the president.”
As part of his persistent campaign against these judges’ actions, Gill is also calling for hearings in to force judges to testify under oath before Congress.
“I’m certainly hopeful, and I’ve been pushing for that. Not only for impeachment, but you know, to get to impeachment we need to have an investigation and both the House and the Senate are doing that right now,” Gill told The Daily Signal.
Specifically, Gill says he would like to question Boasberg and others about his signing of gag orders which hid the Department of Justice’s Arctic Frost investigation into alleged attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election under President Joe Biden.
Eight Republican senators allegedly had their phones tapped as part of the investigation.
“I would love to bring not only the judge, but various other people involved in the Arctic Frost investigation before us to answer for what they were doing—weaponizing the federal government against their political enemies,” Gill told The Daily Signal.
“Really every major conservative organization, multiple sitting senators, pundits across the conservative spectrum who were being targeted in this investigation. They need to answer for that, and I think we would learn a lot by having them under oath with cameras on and giving us the ability to ask them questions.
Boasberg’s media liaison did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
